... they are written from direct know ledge, at all events they convey that feeling. For some reason serious books about the theatre memoirs, for instance rarely sell. Perhaps it may be different with stage novels, and certainly the pair at present on hand ...

... TIGER! TIGER! AT THE STRAND THEATRE. OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC THERE is no evidence extant that William Blake, who wrote the poem commencing, Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night. had ever seen such an animal, and certainly he never ...

... eagerly to Green Apple Harvest. TVT iss Kaye Smith, by the way, spent an evening during a recent visit to London at the Empire Theatre, and very much enjoyed, in common with a crowded and enthusiastic house, Miss Edith Day's beautiful presentation of Irene ...

... soul of the Housing Association for Officers' Families, a matinee in aid of which was recently held at the Winter Garden Theatre Photograph Alice Hughes THE LITERARY LOG concluded) He gives you all the information you want in a way which few writers could ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC SUCH A NICE YOUNG MAN. UNFORTUNATELY this comedy has already been withdrawn from the Apollo Theatre, and unless it is revived elsewhere it will have suffered the fate of a very short run-- a fate which has befallen many a better ...

... up after a few years in one locality. It should also be remembered that the theatres devoted to revue have their own public to a great extent, and as the list of such theatres is soon exhausted by a regular revue-goer, he must therefore see the same- comedian ...

... Hippo drome, and com- mentingadversely upon the leading artists, themselves included. As the ladies of the chorus leave the theatre, there is a little playful badinage and when one of them puts her foot on a rather high chair in order to re-tie her bootlace ...

... leisurely performance packed with good things, not nearly so dramatic as some people who know his name in connection with the theatre might expect, but well con ceived and set out. The story is quite simple. John could have stayed on in Ulster and run his ...

... the younger generation, and those who wit nessed a farcical comedy called Pll Leave It to You, by Noel Coward, at the New Theatre the other evening had a very marked experience of this character. Amid enormous applause at the end of the play, Mr. Noel ...

... is that, when the theatre was built, the Bayreuth idea was not fully developed even at Bayreuth, and the possibilities of Stratford as a place of artistic pilgrimage were but imper fectly realised. The consequence was that the theatre, both before and ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC DADDALUMS, AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. THIS is a fairly interesting, if faulty, play, built up round one character, just, as King Lear was-- though there, as Byron said when comparing Don Juan with Joseph, the likeness ends. It is an ...

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